Bangla Mirror
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| name = Bangla Mirror
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| image = Bangla Mirror frontpage 2nd September 2011.jpg
| caption = Front page on 2 September 2010
| format = Tabloid
| type = Weekly newspaper
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| editor = Mohammed Abdul Kaim (Goni)
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| foundation = October 2002
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| language = English
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| headquarters = Unit-2, 60 Hanbury Street, Aldgate, London, E1 5JL
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| sister newspapers = Sylhet Mirror
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| website = {{URL|banglamirrornews.com|Official website}}
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The Bangla Mirror ({{langx|bn|বাংলা দর্পন}}) is a British English-language weekly newspaper marketed to British Bangladeshis.{{cite book |last=Siddiqui|first=Tasneem|title=Institutionalising diaspora linkage: the emigrant Bangladeshis in U.K. and U.S.A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcUHAQAAMAAJ&q=Bangla+Mirror|year=2004|publisher=International Organization for Migration, Regional Office for South Asia|page=26|isbn=978-9843212368}} It is owned by the Bangla Mirror Group.
Content
The Bangla Mirror was launched in October 2002.{{cite news |url=http://www.banglamirrornews.com/2015/10/celebrating-the-best-of-the-british-bangladeshi-community/|title=Celebrating the best of the British Bangladeshi community|newspaper=Bangla Mirror|date=29 October 2015|access-date=1 November 2015}} It is based in London and is published every Friday for £0.50 (or for an annual subscription of £35). Its aim is to link members of the British Bangladeshi community to the heritage of their ancestors in Bangladesh.{{cite news |url=http://www.banglamirrornews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=68&a4f2f065350d8bf6d01e9c2786e69751=a40a04264edd7a0743aae95fdcdf0c48|title=Overview of the Bangla Mirror Winner of the BIMA International Media Awards 2004|newspaper=Bangla Mirror|access-date=18 September 2011}}{{Self-published source?|date=June 2025}} It owned by the Bangla Mirror Group.{{cite news |url=http://www.sylhetmirror.com/about-us|title=The Bangla Mirror|location=Sylhet|work=Sylhet Mirror|access-date=1 August 2015}}
The newspaper combines hometown weekly qualities (such as human interest stories, anniversaries, birthdays) with popular major newspapers or magazines features (such as book, movie, television, restaurant, music, stage, politics, health issues, sports, travel, fashion, art, classifieds, memoriam, obituaries).{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2025}}
The newspaper focuses on current events and happenings of interest to the British Bangladeshi community. Including articles on Bangladeshi and British Bangladeshi entertainers, politicians, social organizations, service groups as well as features on Bangladeshi history, articles on Bangladeshi roots, old stories featuring prominent British Bangladeshis, and also community-based celebrations.{{Self-published source?|date=June 2025}}
The newspaper is read in the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, the United States of America, Sri Lanka, Norway and Iceland. The newspaper is read at the Bangladeshi High Commission in London and by civil service departments in Bangladesh itself.{{cite news |last1=Ismail|first1=Ali|last2=Galleli|first2=Alex|url=http://thebanglamirror.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_archive.html|title=The Bangla Mirror|newspaper=Bangla Mirror|date=8 June 2005|access-date=18 September 2011}}{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2025}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.banglamirrornews.com/}}
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Category:Newspapers established in 2002
Category:2002 establishments in England
Category:Newspapers published in London
Category:Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:National newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:British Bangladeshi mass media
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